1893.] NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 139 



as often presenting reversions. He emplaasized the evolutionary 

 tendency in man to proximalizatiou of the points of attacliment 

 of the shoulder muscle group, referred to cleavage variations 

 in the anterior portion of brachio-sphalic sheet, and compared 

 these with ontogenetic characters in anthropoids. Human 

 anomalies in this group are best interpreted by cynocephaloids, 

 and not by the higher forms. 



The i^aper was referred to the Publication Committee. 



Professor E. B. Wilson, " On Regeneration and the Mosaic 

 Theory of Development,' presented a brief critique of the 

 latest results of Eoux and Weismann. 



The following paper was read, illustrated by specimens and 

 maps : 



THE SUNAPEE SAIBLING : A FOURTH NEW ENGLAND 

 VARIETY OF SALVELINUS. 



BY JOHN D. QUACKENBOS. 



The sudden and unaccountable appearance, in large 

 numbers, of a valuable food and game fish in any of our 

 inland waters, would be hailed as a most important event, both 

 in the angling and the ichthyological world. Assume that fish 

 to be a prolific and rapidly growing salmonid, surpassing all 

 congeners in symmetry and brilliancy of coloration, equalling 

 the most delicate in table merits, and excelled in game qualities 

 by the land-locked salmon alone— and you may readily compre- 

 hend the enthusiasm which, some seven or eight years ago, 

 greeted the discovery of a New Hampshire charr characterized 

 by such a synthesis of traits. 



Until the year 1885, but three species of trout, or more prop- 

 erly charr (a Grelic word, meaning red or blood-colored), were 

 recognized as native to New England, viz. : 



I. The Salvelinus fontinalis, or common brook trout. 

 II. The SalueUnus namaycmh, the longe, togue, lake, or 

 Mackinaw trout. 



III. The Salvelinus slagnalis of Jordan ; oquassa of Girard 

 and Giiuther, the diminutive blue-back of the Rangeley Lakes 

 of Western Maine — the last, closely allied to species widely 

 spead through Arctic America, as well as to the European 

 saibling. 



